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dispatches from Stepford, Vermont

Josh Slocum
Feb 25
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The Stepford Wives: Inside the making of the 1975 feminist horror classic |  EW.com

This is not a camp joke. Many of us are actually living in Stepford, Connecticut. The one from 1975, not the “comedy” remake.

Those of you in Gen X and early Boomherhood will remember how good 1970s horror and science fiction was. The made-for-TV adaptation of Ira Levin’s The Stepford Wives runs circles around any modern big-budget theatrical release.

You know the feeling you had when you watched it. That you were being spied on. That a thin veil separated you from a world that looked almost, but not quite, like the real one.

This is the feeling I experience every day leaving my house and interacting in public in Burlington Vermont.

Yesterday I went to a specialty locksmith to get a set of keys cut.

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